Can anyone give me a good muscadine wine recipe?
I will be making homemade muscadine wine in a few weeks. I made it years ago with sugar and yeast but i was looking to see if anyone had a really good recipe.
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GRAPE, SCUPPERNONG OR MUSCADINE WINE
8 qts. fruit
8 lbs. sugar
4 qts. warm water
1 pkg. dry yeast
Dissolve yeast in sugar water. Pour mix over mashed fruit. Stir. Slice one potato and put on top then add a good handful of meal on top of that. Let stand 28 days. Stir every few days. Strain and bottle, but do not seal. This recipe is a sure fire, no fail one.
VICTOR BERNARD’S MUSCADINE WINE
from Cooking Section, August 2003
Ingredients needed:
In a one gallon bottle put:
1 quart grape juice
1 tablespoons brewers yeast, dissolved in warm water
1 to 2 cups sugar, to taste. (More sugar will make sweet wines, less a dryer vintage
3 tablespoons sodium carbonate (buy this at a pharmacy)
Wash the grapes and squeeze out the juice with your hands. (This is the Cajun way of making wine, Bernard, who lives in New Iberia, says.)
Fill the bottle the rest of the way up and stir. Drill a hole through a cork, and through the hole put a length of transparent tubing. Cork one end of the tubing in the bottle of wine and put the other into a container of water. Be sure the tubing stays in the water, this way carbon dioxide can escape without air getting into the bottle and spoiling the wine. Let sit someplace cool for 14 days. That’s all it takes, according to Bernard, to make wine.
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